MUZAFFARABAD, May 6: Three police constables were wounded when some outlaws, whom they had gone to arrest in a case, attacked them in a village in the southern Poonch district of Azad Kashmir on Monday.

The incident occurred in the afternoon in the Dharoti village, where head constable Mohammad Asghar and constables Sadiq and Asif had gone to arrest Mohammad Mushtaq, Mohammad Riaz, Mohammad Majid and Maqsood Ahmed, sons of Mohammad Sharif, for injuring a student earlier in the day, official sources told Dawn.

Those wanted attacked the police party with batons, stones and other weapons when the policemen were about to swoon on their house, wounding the two constables.

The head constable was wounded when a bullet hit him in the stomach. He admitted to the Combined Military Hospital, Rawalakot, in a critical condition.

The assailants fled the scene and had not been arrested till the filing of this report. Police have registered another case against them.